Aurèlia Muñoz | |
Other Names: | Aurèlia Muñoz Ventura |
Birth Date: | 1926 |
Birth Place: | Barcelona, Spain |
Death Place: | Barcelona, Spain |
Field: | Fiber art |
Alma Mater: | Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny |
Aurèlia Muñoz (1926–2011) was a Spanish textile artist. She is known for her tapestries and fiber sculptures.
Muñoz was born in 1926 in Barcelona.[1] She attended the Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny.[2] She was part of the new era of textile art in the 1960s and 1970s.[3] [4]
In 1993 Muñoz received the Creu de Sant Jordi for her craftsmanship and her part in the renewal of textile art in Catalonia.[5] She was a member of the World Crafts Council.
Muñoz died in Barcelona on 9 June 2011.[6]
From 2019 through 2021 the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya highlighted her work in an exhibition entitled Knotting the Space.[7] Her work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[8]
Muñoz' work is in the permanent collections of the Fondation Toms Pauli,[9] the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,[10] the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona,[1] the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya,[7] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[11]